A comprehensive exploration of how reading aloud to children can teach them empathy, compassion, and self-regulation Read alouds provide far more than giving children the opportunity to listen to a good story. In Reading Aloud for Emotional Literacy, Lana Edwards Santoro and Jean Louise M. Smith demonstrate how reading aloud to students can cultivate emotional literacy, support resilience, and make the world a kinder, more understanding place. Using examples of conversational strategies to build vocabulary, empathy, and self-regulation skills, this book shows teachers how to pair storybooks and informational texts about emotions, and apply explicit questioning techniques before, during, and after reading. Chapters instruct educators on how to use simple read aloud conversational strategies to promote emotional literacy, listening skills, and reading comprehension. Readers will also learn how they can teach children to healthily respond to emotional experiences-rather than impulsively react-and become authors of their own stories. Reading Aloud to Promote Emotional Literacy examines how comprehension skills taught during read alouds are the same skills necessary to recognize and interpret emotions. Educators, caregivers, counselors, and others who work with young children will find this book to be a valuable resource for teaching the next generation how to understand, process, and articulate feelings in themselves and others.
